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Sunday, January 08, 2012

My Interview with Alexandra Mendès Part 1

I had a phone interview with one of the candidates running for President of the Liberal party of Canada. As we all know this is one of the most important positions us Liberals have to elect at the Convention.

Q: One of the issues the President of the Liberal party is going to have to face is to attract former Liberals back to the party. How do you intend to do that?

A: By Honoring their past service to the party.We often forget
that people who have been Liberals who have been discouraged from the party.
Lot of Liberals got discourage by the infighting and the division and this has
been going on since the leadership campaign in1984. I come to the conclusion
that we are our worse enemy. For me to recover the thrust of the Liberals who
left the boat we must show them we have changed. Infighting is not acceptable. As
Liberals we have the right to our opinion, but shouldn't resort to fighting each
other.

Q: What is your view on the Leader's power to veto the nomination of the candidates from the EDA?

A: I have no problem eliminating the veto power of the
leader of the party, but we should maintain the power of nomination In order to
have diversity (in respects to gender, handicaps etc…) .We can’t be always
assured that the EDA will always take diversity into account. I am fully in favor of
affirmative action.

Q: How would you reform the policy process in the Liberal Party? And would you be for voting on policies online?

A:The national policy chair is in charge of that. I don’t
think I should be taking on all the executive rolls. We should encourage
technology as form of modernization of the process. We can do it and do it
well.

Q: What do you think about a zero dollar membership fee?

A: I am not against it or in favor. We should make membership as easy as
possible. The fee is very symbolic and the process should be made easy.

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